Trump Corruption

Bloomberg News reports: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will put $455 billion in unspent Cares Act funding into an account that his presumed successor, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, will need authorization from Congress to use. Mnuchin plans to place the money into the agency’s General Fund, a Treasury Department spokesperson said Tuesday. That fund can only be tapped with …

Uproxx reports: Randy Quaid, an actor best known for playing unhinged characters like Cousin Eddie in the Vacation movies and an alcoholic pilot in Independence Day, is plenty, let’s say, “eccentric” in real life, too. There was the time he released a sex tape with his wife Evi where she wears a Rupert Murdoch mask, and when they sought asylum …

The Independent reports: Having come closer than ever to accepting the 2020 election results on Monday night, by officially launching the transition process, Donald Trump again took to Twitter in the small hours of Tuesday to insist that he “will never concede”. The president reiterated his unsubstantiated claims that the 3 November vote had been “the most corrupt election”, saying …

Morning Call reports: The General Services Administration has ascertained that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration. An official said Administrator Emily Murphy made the determination after Trump efforts to subvert the vote failed across battleground states, most recently in Michigan, …

ABC News reports: As states begin to certify election results that seal a victory for President-elect Joe Biden, even though Donald Trump hasn’t conceded there is one clear sign his post-presidency life is taking shape: Secret Service agents in the president’s detail are being asked whether they’re interested in transferring to Palm Beach, Florida. The Secret Service’s Miami field office …

Michigan Live reports: The Board of State Canvassers certified Michigan’s November general election results in a 3-0-1 vote Monday. The board, made up of two Republicans and two Democrats, met Nov. 23 to make the vote count official after all 83 Michigan counties certified their election results, which include Joe Biden’s 2.8% statewide victory over President Donald Trump. The state …

“There’s a bunch of different theories going around that she really is not going to stop working, she’s just disassembling herself from the Trump team. I mean, it’s a tough thing to deny that she was ever a part of it, because they introduced her as part of it. “I mean, she was at that press conference last week. “You …

NBC News reports: While President Donald Trump has publicly praised his legal team’s efforts, he has privately expressed frustration with the slapdash nature of his election defense fight, according to several people familiar with the discussions. The president has been complaining to aides and allies about his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and recently-removed lawyer Sidney Powell’s over-the-top performances at a …

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: The attorney leading President Donald Trump’s recount effort in Wisconsin voted illegally according to his own legal argument that in-person absentee ballots should be thrown out. So did his wife. Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge and Cross Plains attorney who is representing the Trump campaign, would not answer questions about why he and …

Axios reports: It’s over. That’s what Blackstone chairman, CEO and co-founder Steve Schwarzman — one of President Trump’s most loyal allies — and other top Republicans are signaling to the defeated president, 16 days after Joe Biden clinched the win. Why it matters: It’s all theatrics now. Even if Trump doesn’t move on fast, you can. It is safe to …

Mediaite reports: Attorney Sidney Powell, who on Sunday night was tossed under the bus by President Donald Trump’s lawyers Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani, responded by releasing a statement saying that she will continue to represent the “#WeThePeople” — and adding at the end of her statement the hashtag “#KrakenOnSteroids.” Gen. Michael Flynn, a former client of Powell’s, tweeted that …

Just in from the Trump Campaign: “Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.” – Rudy Giuliani, Attorney for President Trump, and Jenna Ellis, Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor and Attorney for President Trump. Just so you’re …

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood, who this week engineered the Kenosha killer’s release on bail and who sued election officials in Georgia, appeared to call for civil war in an appearance today on Steve Bannon’s webcast. Media Matters has the transcript: LIN WOOD: I think the audience has to do what the people that were our Founding Fathers did in 1776. …

Raw Story reports: A Pennsylvania judge issued a scathing order rejecting the president’s claims of massive voter fraud. The ruling was described as a total shellacking and a dunk. As expected, Trump suffered a Twitter meltdown. But his legal team didn’t seem that much more stable. The ruling showed that Jenna Ellis, one of the lawyers on Trump’s team, had …

ABC News reports: President Trump’s campaign on Sunday filed a notice of appeal after a federal judge dismissed Trump’s attempt to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania. Attorneys for the president’s campaign, including Rudy Giuliani, submitted an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, following Judge Matthew Brann’s scathing ruling Saturday rejecting Trump’s case. Brann, …

Mediaite reports: One of the most absurd, outlandish allegations from the Trump legal team has been Sidney Powell’s claim of a massive election rigging involving Dominion voting machines, Venezuela, Huge Chavez, and more. Powell appeared on Newsmax last night, continuing to claim she has evidence that will blow this whole thing wide open, and again going after Tucker Carlson — …

The Washington Post reports: Several prominent Republicans said this weekend that President Trump’s legal arguments had run their course, calling on him to concede to Joe Biden or at least allow the presidential transition process to begin. “The conduct of the president’s legal team has been a national embarrassment,” Chris Christie said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Christie, a Trump …

The Hill reports: Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said on Sunday that it was “past time to start a transition” to a Biden administration adding he would “rather have a president that has more than one day to prepare.” The GOP senator told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that President Trump had the right to contest the election results …

The Washington Post reports: In a nod to the reality that he is destined to leave office in January, the president is seriously contemplating life beyond the White House, telling advisers that he wants to remain an omnipresent force in politics and the media — perhaps by running for the White House again. Trump has told confidants he could announce …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: Today’s decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although we fully disagree with this opinion, we’re thankful to the Obama-appointed judge for making this anticipated decision quickly, rather than simply trying to run out the clock. We will be seeking an expedited appeal …